A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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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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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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