The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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