Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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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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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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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.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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