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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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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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“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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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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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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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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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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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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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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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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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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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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Love is the river of life in this world.
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