Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHERJoy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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