Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength...

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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the...

#Henry Ward Beecher

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without...

#Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

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

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Suffering is part of the divine idea.

#Henry Ward Beecher

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a...

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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one...

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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a...

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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

#Henry Ward Beecher