The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERChristianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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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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Love is the river of life in this world.
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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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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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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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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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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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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?
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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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.
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