Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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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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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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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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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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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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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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