True obedience is true freedom.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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I 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.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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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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