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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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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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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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