The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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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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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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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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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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