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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

Henry Ward Beecher

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Far Genius Kind Man
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Easy Grave Hard Place World
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Afraid Death Heroic Inspirational Loud Motivational Noble Patriotism Society Talk
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Equality Home Joy Tropical
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Institution Law Time True Wound
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Dress Leaving Tree
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
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Difference Marriage Poor Wings
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Afraid Defeat Goodness Reason Victory
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Law Time Work
See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Each Other Feeling Life Pure True Yourself
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Correct Fact Man Mistake
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Forever God Literature Point

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