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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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As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
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A babe is a mother's anchor.
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.
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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
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If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
Henry Ward Beecher
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In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
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A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
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A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.
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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
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The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.
Henry Ward Beecher -
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
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So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.
Henry Ward Beecher