If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
HENRY WARD BEECHERAll men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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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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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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 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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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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