Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYour greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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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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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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