Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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