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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher

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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Gospel Himself Public Wisdom
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Library Life Necessary Oneself
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Children Friendship Love Parents
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Deep Exploration Ourselves Soul Thinking Wonderful
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Balance Music Parent Sentence Truth
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
The things that hurt us teach us.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bad Goodness Influence
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

God Night Plant Sleep
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Neighbor See Yourself
Whatever 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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Dangerous Errors Fake Leadership Mistake Path Quite True
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Divine Food Happiness Medicine Sorrow

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