The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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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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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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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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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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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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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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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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