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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe things that hurt us teach us.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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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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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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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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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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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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