Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker
Lived from: 1813 - 1887
Category: Theologians and clergy Country: 
United States
Born: 24 june 1813 Died: 8 march 1887
Quotes 41 till 60 of 130.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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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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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.
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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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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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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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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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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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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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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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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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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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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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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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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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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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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
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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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