Faith is spiritualized imagination.
HENRY WARD BEECHERInterest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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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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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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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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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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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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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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