The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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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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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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You 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.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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