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 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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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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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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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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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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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