God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe most dangerous people are the ignorant.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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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.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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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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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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