Category: social reformer
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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Frederick Douglass
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
Henry Ward Beecher