All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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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?
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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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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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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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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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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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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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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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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