He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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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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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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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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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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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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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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