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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTroubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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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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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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