Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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