There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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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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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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