The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSome men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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 without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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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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Love is the river of life in this world.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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