To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe most dangerous people are the ignorant.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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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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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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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 art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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