People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThat is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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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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The things that hurt us teach us.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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