God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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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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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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