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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYoung 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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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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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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