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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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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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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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