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Henry Ward Beecher

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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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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!


— Henry Ward Beecher


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God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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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 battlefields in history.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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Did you know about Henry Ward Beecher?

His wife loyally supported him throughout the ordeal. "
Muscular and long-haired the preacher was close to a series of attractive young women but his wife Eunice the mother of his 10 children was "unloved. I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million.

Henry Ward Beecher (June 24 1813 – March 8 1887) was a prominent Congregationalist clergyman social reformer abolitionist and speaker in the mid to late 19th century.

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