Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.Henry Ward Beecher
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, - all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it.
Henry Ward Beecher
If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
Henry Ward Beecher
When a man sells 11 ounces for 12, he makes a compact with the devil, an sells himself for the value of an ounce.
Henry Ward Beecher
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, free men.
Henry Ward Beecher
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
Henry Ward Beecher
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