A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
HENRY WARD BEECHERInterest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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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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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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