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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.
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Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Love is the wine of existence.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.
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There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
Henry Ward Beecher -
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
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Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.
Henry Ward Beecher