Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGreatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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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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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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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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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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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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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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