Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
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Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
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Love is the wine of existence.
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
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Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
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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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Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.
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There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
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A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.