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?
HENRY WARD BEECHERHome should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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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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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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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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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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