Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
HENRY WARD BEECHERRepentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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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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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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