Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
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Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the elements of disease and bring new elements of health and where free speech is stopped, miasma is bred, and death comes fast.Henry Ward Beecher
Blessed are the Happiness Makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.
Henry Ward Beecher
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
Henry Ward Beecher
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
Henry Ward Beecher
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher
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