Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
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The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.
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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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Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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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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If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
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There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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The mother's heart is the child's school-room.
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A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
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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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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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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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A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
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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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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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