The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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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.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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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.
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