Henry Ward Beecher



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"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

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

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"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore"

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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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