Henry Ward Beecher

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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