You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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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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