Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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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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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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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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