Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTroubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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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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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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