There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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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.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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