To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLaws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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