It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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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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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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