Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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