The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERFaith is spiritualized imagination.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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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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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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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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True obedience is true freedom.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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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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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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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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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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