Henry Ward Beecher

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"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."	Sin
"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."	Miscellaneous
"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."	Happiness, Joy
"Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart."	Art, Experience, Intentions
"What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose."	Art
"Of all the earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart."	Art, Music
"It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."	Quitting
"Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life."	Success, Law
"One man scorned and covered with scars still strive with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."	Love
"One man scorned and covered with scars still strive with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."	Friendship, Dreams
"Expedients are for the hour; principles for the ages."	Wisdom
"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."	Quotations
"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."	Quotations
"The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!"	Thanksgiving
"You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave."	Anti-Religion, Adversity
"God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with."	Anti-Religion, Adversity
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."	Art
"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."	Reading
"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."	Anti-God, Books
"There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs."	Reading
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