Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSome people are proud of their humility.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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