Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
HENRY WARD BEECHERPushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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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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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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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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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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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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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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