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 BEECHERThe law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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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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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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