Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
HENRY WARD BEECHERBooks are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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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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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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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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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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