Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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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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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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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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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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