HENRY WARD BEECHER QUOTES XIX

American clergyman (1813-1887)

A people uneducated is like an iron mountain whose ore is unwrought.

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A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

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That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

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Birds finish the nest with their own breast, so it is the bosom that makes the home, and not the bill or the claw.

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God gives as the wheat gives: we sow one grain, and reap a hundred.

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Justice is never so slender to us as when we first practice it.

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There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

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Worry is rust upon the blade.

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Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

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Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine.

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Grace is only nature blossomed out; nature won and warmed into its true growth.

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Every well-doer on the face of the earth is my blood relation through Jesus Christ.

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