There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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