Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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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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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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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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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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