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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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