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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.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Afraid Death Heroic Inspirational Loud Motivational Noble Patriotism Society Talk
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Excellence Judgment People Point Start Travel
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Beginning End Promise
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Choice Government Man
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Catch Children Consistent Prediction Yourself
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Love Myself Worship
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Correct Fact Man Mistake

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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