To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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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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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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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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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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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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