Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
HENRY WARD BEECHERWhatever 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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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.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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