There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYoung 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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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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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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