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Henry Ward Beecher

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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Now comes the mystery.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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Suffering is part of the divine idea.


— 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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