To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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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 things that hurt us teach us.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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