A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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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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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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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In 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.
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