Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYou are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody 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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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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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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