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War Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
- Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
- The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
- A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
- The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
- Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
- Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
- Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
- The dog is the god of frolic.
- The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
- The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
- In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
- Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
- No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
- He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
- God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
- To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
- When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
- It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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