No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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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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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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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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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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