You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
HENRY WARD BEECHERFaith is spiritualized imagination.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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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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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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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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