Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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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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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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There 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.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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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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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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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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