Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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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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A 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.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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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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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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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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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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