The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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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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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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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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 grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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