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 BEECHERCompassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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