Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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