Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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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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Love is the river of life in this world.
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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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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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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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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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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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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is 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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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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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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