Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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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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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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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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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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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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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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