Sorrow makes men sincere.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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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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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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