There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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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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