We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLaws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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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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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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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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