Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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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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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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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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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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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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