Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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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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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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True obedience is true freedom.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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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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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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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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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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