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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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 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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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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