Category: social reformer
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Frederick Douglass
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
Henry Ward Beecher
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher