No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe things that hurt us teach us.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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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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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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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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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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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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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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