Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Henry Ward Beecher
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About Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial. His rhetorical focus on the love of Christ has influenced mainstream Christianity through the 21st century.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Henry Ward BeecherTo become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Love is the river of life in the world.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is f…
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
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.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.