There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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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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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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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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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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