A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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