It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo man is more cheated than the selfish man.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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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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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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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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The things that hurt us teach us.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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