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.
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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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In 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.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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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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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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