Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHERChristianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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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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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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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.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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