The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSorrow makes men sincere.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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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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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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