The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might 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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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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