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Often Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
- Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
- Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined…
- In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
- His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled…
- A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
- Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
- Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
- The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character…
- There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the…
- Good nature is often a mere matter of health.
- The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread…
- Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
- The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
- Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
- A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
- The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
- By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the school-house, established the…
- When young men are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a…
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