Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHappiness is not the end of life: character is.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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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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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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