Henry Ward Beecher quotes - page 14

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this childs want by grown people ... is a fertile source of suffering. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Happiness is not the end in life character is. View quote
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If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age. View quote
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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness.... But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them. View quote
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A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness. View quote
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The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought not by the rising and setting of the sun. View quote
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Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes. View quote
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Christ is the ideal of what a man should be. He has my ideal portrait, as it were, drawn out in His own thought and feeling. There is an exaltation and a grandeur for myself in the time to come, which Christ knows, and I do not; but I am following after. I am pressing up toward that thought that Christ has of what I am and ought to be; and I am determined that I will apprehend it as Christ Himself does. Not that I have it; but I will strive for it. My manhood is in the future. My life lies beyond the present. View quote
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