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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe most dangerous people are the ignorant.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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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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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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