The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLaws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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