The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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