The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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.
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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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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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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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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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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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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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