Shining Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

8 Shining quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher’s perspective on brilliance comes across in these eight succinct statements. They provide a quick, thoughtful look at his outlook.

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The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the…

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It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just…

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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

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Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as…

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Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts…

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There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death,…

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Blessed are the happiness makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

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If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he…

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Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches…

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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

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Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

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In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

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THERE are joys which long to be ours.

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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten…

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Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

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Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain…

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You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it…

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