In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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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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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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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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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 Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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