To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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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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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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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