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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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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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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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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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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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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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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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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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