The things that hurt us teach us.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe things that hurt us teach us.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDeath is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHome should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHERRepentance is another name for aspiration.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHe is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYour greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREducation is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIntelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA 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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
HENRY WARD BEECHERBeauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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