Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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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 can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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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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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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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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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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