The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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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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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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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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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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