Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYou are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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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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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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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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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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