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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

Henry Ward Beecher

It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Better Easy Hill Top View
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
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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Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Adversity Defeat Right Sweet Victory Yourself
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Doctor More Sun Thinking
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Break Himself Live Man Place Right Temptation
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Faith Imagination Spiritual
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Death Hard Intolerance
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Battery Destruction Law Outside Protection
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Excuse Himself Man Reality

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