See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Love is the river of life in this world.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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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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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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