To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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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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