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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSome men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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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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