Sorrow makes men sincere.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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