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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Repentance is another name for aspiration.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher 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.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher True obedience is true freedom.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher It 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.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher
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