The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
HENRY WARD BEECHERAs 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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 real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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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.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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