To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSome people are proud of their humility.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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