The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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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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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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