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Henry Ward Beecher Inspirational Quotes (535)

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There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.
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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Love is the world's river of life
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Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.
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A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
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Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off not a stone goes through.
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And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
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Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.
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As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.
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Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.
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There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.
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There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.
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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
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