I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
HENRY WARD BEECHERJoy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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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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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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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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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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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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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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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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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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