There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTrue obedience is true freedom.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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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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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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