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Henry Ward Beecher

United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887)

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Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.

– Henry Ward Beecher

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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.

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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

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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 sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

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What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

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Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

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Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.

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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

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We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

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It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road.

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Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

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A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance

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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

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Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

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Repentance is another name for aspiration.

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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

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Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

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The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.

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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".

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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but.

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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

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Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.

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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore

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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

– Henry Ward Beecher

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