Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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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.
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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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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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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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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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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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