The dog is the god of frolic.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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