There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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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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True obedience is true freedom.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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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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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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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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