To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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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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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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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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True obedience is true freedom.
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