Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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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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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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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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