Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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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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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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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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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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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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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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