It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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 matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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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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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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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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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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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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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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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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