To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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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.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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