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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
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Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
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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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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth sorrows bring heaven down close and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.
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Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
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God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
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Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.
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They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
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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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