He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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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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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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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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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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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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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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