Written by Pastor Jack Wellman
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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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The dog was created especially for children. He is a god of frolic.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coal pit, and twice as foul.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is the more likely to lead astray.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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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.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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No physician ever weighed out medicine to his patients with half so much care and exactness as God weighs out to us every trial. Not one grain too much does He ever permit to be put in the scale.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a 'but'.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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A sermon is not like a Chinese firecracker to be fired off for the noise it makes. It is a hunter's gun, and at every discharge he should look to see his game fall.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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The strength and happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going that way too.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
- Henry Ward Beecher
