The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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