Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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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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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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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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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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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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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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