The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
HENRY WARD BEECHERHome should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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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 sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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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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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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