We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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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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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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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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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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