The beginning is the promise of the end.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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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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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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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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