Sorrow makes men sincere.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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