QUOTES by Henry Ward Beecher
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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky"
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities"
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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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"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."
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"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."
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"In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"It is not the going out of the port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"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."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"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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"There never was a person that did anything worth doing who did not really receive more than he gave"
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"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"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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"In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands"
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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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"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."
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"We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves."
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"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher