The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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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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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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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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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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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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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.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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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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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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