The dog is the god of frolic.
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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 BeecherThe real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
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…
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
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 agains…
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.