Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
HENRY WARD BEECHERAre they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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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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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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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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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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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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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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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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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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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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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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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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