It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDon’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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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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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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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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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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