No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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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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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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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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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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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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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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