God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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