The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe beginning is the promise of the end.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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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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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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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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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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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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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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