Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThat is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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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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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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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 head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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