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| Henry Ward Beecher Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell. | Death |
| 2 | Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on this side orphans, on that children; on this side captives, on that freemen.. | Death |
| 3 | To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. | Disease |
| 4 | A mans' character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have character resides in him, reputation in that is the substance, this is the shadow. | Honor |
| 5 | Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. | Imagination |
| 6 | In a natural state, tears and laughter go hand in hand; for they are twin-born. Like two children sleeping in one cradle, when one wakes and stirs, the other wakes also. | Laughter |
| 7 | Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, - all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. | Laughter |
| 8 | We sleep, but the loom of life never stops and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tommorrow. | Life |
| 9 | There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. | Order |
| 10 | When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full. | Pride |
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