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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 (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man? (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children; (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
See that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man’s life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman (Henry Ward Beecher Quotes)