It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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