Fear secretes acids but love and trust are sweet juices. (Henry Ward Beecher)
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Affliction comes to us all not to make us sad, but sober not to make us sorry, but wise not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field. (Henry Ward Beecher)
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Living is death dying is life On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens on this side, orphans on that, children on this side captives on that freemen on this side, disguised, unknown on that, disclosed and proclaimed as the sons of God. (Henry Ward Beecher)
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers and he who loves weeds will find weeds. (Henry Ward Beecher)
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities. (Henry Ward Beecher)
He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man (Henry Ward Beecher)
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Truths are first clouds then rain, then harvest and food. (Henry Ward Beecher)
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes openly bad and secretly bad. (Henry Ward Beecher)
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