Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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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 not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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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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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 ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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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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