The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTrue elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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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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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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