The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSome men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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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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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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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.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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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 thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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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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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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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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