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Henry Ward Beecher


American
June 24, 1813
Clergyman
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.


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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.


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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.


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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?


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


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You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.


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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.


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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.


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Tags: Man Well Live
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.


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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.


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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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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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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.


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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
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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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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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Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.


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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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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
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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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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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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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Tags: God You Life
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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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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