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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Place Road Ruin Yourself
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Excuse Home Religion Spread
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Far Genius Kind Man
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bury Fair Fault Friendship Grave Himself Man Mistake
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Death Hard Intolerance
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cage Inspirational Potential Worth Yourself
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Hard Master Yourself
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blessing Call Curse Name
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Equality Human Mindset Power Spiritual
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
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Character Nature Saint Sin
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Character End Happiness Life

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

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