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Henry Ward Beecher Inspirational Quotes (535)

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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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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.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John it is the Gospel according to William it is the Gospel according to Mary it is the Gospel according to Henry and James it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
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The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
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The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
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