Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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!
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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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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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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