He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt 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 friendship.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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