It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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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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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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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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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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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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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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