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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
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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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The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.
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Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
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If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work a woman made out of a man is His meanest.
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There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
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No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
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The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.
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Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
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A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
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So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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The elect, those who will the non-elect, those who won't.
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