A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThat is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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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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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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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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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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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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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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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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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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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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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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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