No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLove is the river of life in this world.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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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.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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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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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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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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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 law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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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.
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