There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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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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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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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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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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