True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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