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The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.


Catharine Beecher

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HENRY WARD BEECHER Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER True obedience is true freedom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
HENRY WARD BEECHER I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Repentance is another name for aspiration.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the hous...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machiner...
HENRY WARD BEECHER There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
HENRY WARD BEECHER He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety--all this ru...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, mor...
HENRY WARD BEECHER In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equival...
HENRY WARD BEECHER See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be al...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could no...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a ha...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
HENRY WARD BEECHER A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purp...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
HENRY WARD BEECHER We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
HENRY WARD BEECHER God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam o...
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