Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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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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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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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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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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