You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
HENRY WARD BEECHERFind out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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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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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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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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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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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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The things that hurt us teach us.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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