There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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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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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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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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