A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
HENRY WARD BEECHEROnes best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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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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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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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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