Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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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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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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