The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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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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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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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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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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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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