Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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 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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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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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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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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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The dog is the god of frolic.
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