A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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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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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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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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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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