Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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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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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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