To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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