Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYoung love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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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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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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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 government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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