Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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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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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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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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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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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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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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It 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.
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