It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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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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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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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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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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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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