Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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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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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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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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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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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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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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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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