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Henry Ward Beecher

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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.


— Henry Ward Beecher


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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.


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


— Henry Ward Beecher


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About 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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