To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHe that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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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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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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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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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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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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