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Than Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
- Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
- Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
- Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
- Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
- God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without…
- The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns…
- The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable…
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