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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

Henry Ward Beecher

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Foundation Man Moral Remember Young
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Blessing Drive Temptation Time Work
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Catch Children Consistent Prediction Yourself
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fall Sight Slip Yourself
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Dangerous Errors Fake Leadership Mistake Path Quite True
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Church Education Exhibition Gallery Imperfection Oneself
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Man Nature Necessary Practice Profession Study Success
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Excuse Himself Man Reality
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Afraid Death Heroic Inspirational Loud Motivational Noble Patriotism Society Talk
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way

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