It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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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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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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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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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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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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