If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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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.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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