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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERInterest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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 thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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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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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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