Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe most dangerous people are the ignorant.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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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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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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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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The 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.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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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.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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