Some people are proud of their humility.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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