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Henry Ward Beecher: “Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Henry Ward Beecher: “That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Henry Ward Beecher: “Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Henry Ward Beecher: “I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Henry Ward Beecher: “It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.
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Henry Ward Beecher: “Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
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Henry Ward Beecher: “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore!
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Henry Ward Beecher: “The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a 'but.'
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Henry Ward Beecher: “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Henry Ward Beecher: “No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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Henry Ward Beecher: “The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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Henry Ward Beecher: “There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.
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Henry Ward Beecher: “It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Henry Ward Beecher: “Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Henry Ward Beecher: “Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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