Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREveryone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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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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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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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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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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