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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Give Up Ourselves Rich World
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
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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Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
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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Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Greatness Happiness Heart Pleasure Yourself
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Bury Fair Fault Friendship Grave Himself Man Mistake
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Art Himself Man Medicine Sick

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