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Henry Ward Beecher

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Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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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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Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.
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A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
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Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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A man that is afraid is never a man.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Mirth is God's medicine.
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The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
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Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.
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An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.
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Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
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The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is it is when it is put to the test.
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