Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThat is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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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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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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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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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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