Love is the river of life in this world.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSpreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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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 without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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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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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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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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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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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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