To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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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 grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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