Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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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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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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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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