Faith is spiritualized imagination.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREducation is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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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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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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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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There 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.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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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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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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