True obedience is true freedom.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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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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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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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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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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