Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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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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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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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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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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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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