A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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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 sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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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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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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