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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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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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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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