To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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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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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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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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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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