The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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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.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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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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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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