To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
HENRY WARD BEECHER“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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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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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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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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God 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.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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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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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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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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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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