If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIntelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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True obedience is true freedom.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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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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