Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTroubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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