Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
HENRY WARD BEECHERBeauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Are 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?
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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 Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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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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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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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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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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