Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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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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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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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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