A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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