Henry Ward Beecher Short Quotes

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A contest of roses is better than of horses.

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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore!

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Of all fools, a floral fool deserves the eminence.

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Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

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Alas! Where is human nature so weak as in a book-store!

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There are no such indefatigable entomologists as birds.

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Well-married, a man is winged; ill-matched, he is shackled.

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Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance.

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Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

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

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Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

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

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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

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Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

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Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.

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Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

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Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

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The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

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Tears often prove the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

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