He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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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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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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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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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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