It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWhatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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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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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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