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Quotes from beecher henry ward vii

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
~ beecher henry ward vii
When we have heartily repented of a wrong, we should let all the waves of forgetfulness roll over it, and go forward unburdened to meet the future.
~ beecher henry ward vii
A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
~ beecher henry ward vii
God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
~ beecher henry ward vii
Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.
~ beecher henry ward vii
Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.
~ beecher henry ward vii
Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
~ beecher henry ward vii
Faith means a sanctified imagination, or the imagination applied to spiritual things.
~ beecher henry ward vii
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
~ beecher henry ward vii
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
~ beecher henry ward vii
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 tomorrow.
~ beecher henry ward vii
Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
~ beecher henry ward vii
God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
~ beecher henry ward vii
It takes a man to make a devil.
~ beecher henry ward vii
Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.
~ beecher henry ward vii
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
~ beecher henry ward vii
Wickedness goes to great lengths and depths where it is not checked and restrained by the free and continuous expression of the indignation of good men.
~ beecher henry ward vii