The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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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 art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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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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