Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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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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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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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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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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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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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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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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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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