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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERPride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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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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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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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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