The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHappiness is not the end of life: character is.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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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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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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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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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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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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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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