Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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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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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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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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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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