Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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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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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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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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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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