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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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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 cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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