I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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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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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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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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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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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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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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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.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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