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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
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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Hold Mouth Quarrel Wisdom World
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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Day Interest Man Night Substance Teeth
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Fatal Himself Interest Man Roll
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Book Human Nature Store
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cheer Eat Enjoyment Friendship God
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Give Up Ourselves Rich World
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fall Sight Slip Yourself
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blessing Finding Heart Heaven Thankful
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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Age Himself Man Planning Strength Thinking Time
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Cleaning Close Cloud Earth Instrument Purify Sorrow Storm
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Devil Mean World
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Hard Master Yourself
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Arrogant Exclusive Greatness Nature

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