The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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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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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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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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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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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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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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