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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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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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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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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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