It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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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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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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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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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