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A prominent Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century. Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was a prominent Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century. An 1875 adultery trial in which he was accused of having an affair with a married woman was one of the most notorious American trials of the 19th century. In 2007, The Most Famous Man in America: A Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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A church debt is the devil's salary.
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Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
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Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
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We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Happiness is not the end of life; character is.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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Well married a person has wings poorly married shackles.
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
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The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.
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Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Flowers may beckon towards us but they speak toward heaven and God.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.
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There is no friendship no love like that of the parent for the child.
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What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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The humblest individual exerts some influence either for good or evil upon others.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul.
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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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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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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.
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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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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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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too.
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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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In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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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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Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
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A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size or it is not the door that providence means for him.
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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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God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
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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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Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
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It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
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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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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.
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Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.
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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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Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
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No matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy the sunlight today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.
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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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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and as the magnet finds the iron so it will find in every hour some heavenly blessings!
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain honest and upright.
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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 canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
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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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Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies new contrasts new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other to their work to surrounding objects.
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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 the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.