Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWhere is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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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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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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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.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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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.
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