In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWalking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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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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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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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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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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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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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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