Quotes by Beecher, Henry Ward

"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."

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"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."

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"Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance."

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"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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"In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast."

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"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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"Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time."

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"A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows."

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"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."

Beecher, Henry Ward on anger
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"Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry."

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"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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"The dog is the god of frolic."

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"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance"

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"Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause."

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"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 is the river of life in the world."

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"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."

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"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."

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"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

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"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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"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

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"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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"Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent."

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"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."

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"We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves."

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"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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"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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"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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"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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"It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk."

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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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"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."

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"God's providence is on the side of clear heads."

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"Repentance is another name for aspiration."

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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself."

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"Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life."

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"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."

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"No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

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"To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself."

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"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself."

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