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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Henry Ward Beecher

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Afraid Defeat Goodness Reason Victory
That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Children Expectation Live Mom Myself Obedience
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Oneself Secret
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Deserve Gratitude Humble Mindset Pride Thankful Thinking
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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Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Foundation Man Moral Remember Young
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God Human Rich Soul Talk
Some people are proud of their humility.
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Humility People Proud
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Access Door Each Other Reach Right
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
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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Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

God Night Plant Sleep

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

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