Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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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 will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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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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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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