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?
HENRY WARD BEECHERTroubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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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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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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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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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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