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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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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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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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