You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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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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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of 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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