To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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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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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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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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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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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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The dog is the god of frolic.
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