He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDeath is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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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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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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