“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.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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“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.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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“We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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“The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.”
— 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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“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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“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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“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.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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“It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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