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The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Adversity
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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Ambition
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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America
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Anger
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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Animals
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The dog is the god of frolic.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Appearance
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
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Art
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Attitude
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Character
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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Charity
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There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Christianity
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Class
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Coffee (or Tea)
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A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Common Sense
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Conservatism
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Criticism
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Culture
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Cynicism
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Danger
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Books by and about Henry Ward Beecher