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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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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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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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 Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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