Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYou never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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