Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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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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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.
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