The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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The 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.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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