The things that hurt us teach us.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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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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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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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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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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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.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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