There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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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.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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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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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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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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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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