Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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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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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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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