The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERFind out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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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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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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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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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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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