The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWalking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better 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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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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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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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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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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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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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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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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