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We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence. Henry Ward Beecher
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.
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A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
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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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In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.
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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law.
Henry Ward Beecher
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God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
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It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
Henry Ward Beecher
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To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
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We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.
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Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.
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A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
Henry Ward Beecher