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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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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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