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Henry Ward Beecher Inspirational Quotes (535)

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A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
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Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
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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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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
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When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.
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Difficulties are God's errands and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.
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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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A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
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All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
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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.
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Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.
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It takes a man to make a devil and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
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