The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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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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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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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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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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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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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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