Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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