Beecher, Henry Ward
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Beecher, Henry Ward
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.
Beecher, Henry Ward
Character
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Difficulties
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
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Class
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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Defeat
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty--how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
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Education
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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Common Sense
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
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Investments
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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Joy
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Cynics and Cynicism
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Culture
Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
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Charity
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
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Defeat
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Critics and Criticism
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Christians and Christianity
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
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Christians and Christianity
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
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Duty
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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Debt
Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.
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Death and Dying
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
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Discipline
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;
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Death and Dying
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Churches
The babe at first feeds upon the mother s bosom, but it is always on her heart.
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Family
Now comes the mystery.
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Famous Last Words
It s not the work which kills people, it s the worry. It s not the revolution that destroys machinery it s the friction.
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Health
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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Genius
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
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Heaven
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Heart
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
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Friends and Friendship
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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Hatred
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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Pain
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Family
There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
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Giving
The world s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
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Heroes and Heroism
The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
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Government
True obedience is true freedom.
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Freedom
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Forgiveness
Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.
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Forgiveness
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
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Forgiveness
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Forgiveness
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.
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Forgiveness
See that each hour s feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also.
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Feelings
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men s weaknesses.
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Grace
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Gratitude
Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
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Gratitude
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Gratitude
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Marriage
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Losers and Losing
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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Laughter
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
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Humor
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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Influence
A library is but the soul s burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
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Libraries
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Law and Lawyers
Young 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.
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Love
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
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Influence
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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Imagination
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Humankind
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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Influence
We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -
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Ideas
Love is the river of life in the world.
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Love
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Intolerance
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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Prayer
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love
To array a man s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Medicine
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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Opinions
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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Present
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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Sanity
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won t.
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Perseverance
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Money
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
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Motivation
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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Suffering
The mother s heart is the child s schoolroom.
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Mothers
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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Principles
A tool is but the extension of a man s hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
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Tools
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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Strength
We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
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Parents and Parenting
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
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Praise
I don t like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
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Perfection
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
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Time and Time Management
A man s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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Self-expression
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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Temperament
Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
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Work
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
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Work
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.
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Trouble
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Repentance
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Sacrifice
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.
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Responsibility
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Time and Time Management
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Success
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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Theology
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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Theology
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
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Success
God s providence is on the side of clear heads.
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Providence
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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Selfishness
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
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Time and Time Management
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Secrets
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Success
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
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Riches
If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
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Anger
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
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Gossip
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Danger
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Attitude
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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Enthusiasm
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man s obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
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Bible
The dog is the god of frolic.
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Animals
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Ambition
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
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Appearance
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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Books - Reading
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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Anger
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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America
When a nation s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Conservatives
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Books - Reading
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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Adversity
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Adversity
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
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Fear
The Bible is God s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Bible
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Books - Reading
The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
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Anger
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
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Zest
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices
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Worry
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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Words
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Worth
Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
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Victory