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Henry Ward Beecher Inspirational Quotes (535)

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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
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The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.
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The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.
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The hunger of the eye is not to be despised and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
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There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
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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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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
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A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.
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The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.
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In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.
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Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
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Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.
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Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
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A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.
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God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
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Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.
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