To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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