When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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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.
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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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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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