I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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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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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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