Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTrue obedience is true freedom.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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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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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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