“The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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“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.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Category: love
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“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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“We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Category: religion
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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Category: nature
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“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Category: wisdom
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“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Category: success
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