The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTrue obedience is true freedom.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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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?
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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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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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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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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