Category: social reformer
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A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass
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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.
Henry Ward Beecher
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
Henry Ward Beecher
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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
Henry Ward Beecher
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Henry Ward Beecher
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Henry Ward Beecher