God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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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 Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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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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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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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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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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