Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSpreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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True obedience is true freedom.
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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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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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