Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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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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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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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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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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