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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It 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.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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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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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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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.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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