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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLove is the river of life in this world.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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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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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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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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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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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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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