Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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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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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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