Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHe is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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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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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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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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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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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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