The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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