Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYou never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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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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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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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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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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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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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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