To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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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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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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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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