A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
HENRY WARD BEECHERFind out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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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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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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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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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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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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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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