The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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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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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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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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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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