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?
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe beginning is the promise of the end.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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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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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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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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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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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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