The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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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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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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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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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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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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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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