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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Henry Ward Beecher
Success, Nature, Men

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Henry Ward Beecher
War, People, Ignorant

It 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.

Henry Ward Beecher
Struggle, Long, Wish

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

Henry Ward Beecher
Funny, Humor, Law
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

Henry Ward Beecher
Truth, Pushing, Mets
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.211

Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.

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Morning, Sunday, Men

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

Henry Ward Beecher
Example, Odor, Ruts

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

Henry Ward Beecher
Simplicity, Elegance, Approach

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Henry Ward Beecher
Educational, Book, Reading

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

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Inspirational, Fashion, War
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.58

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.

Henry Ward Beecher
Fear, Health, Men

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Thinking, Long

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Henry Ward Beecher
Christian, War, School
Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Summer in the soul; or, Views and experiences”, p.239

Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

Henry Ward Beecher
Ignorance, Monsters, Womb
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

Henry Ward Beecher
Long, Joy, Bird
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.64

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

Henry Ward Beecher
Work, Discipline, Lenient

Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

Henry Ward Beecher
Death, Christian, Morning
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.104

This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

Henry Ward Beecher
World, Miserable, Stranger
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.232

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

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Love, Life, Friendship

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

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Strong, War, School
henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.35

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Fashion, Men, Clothes
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Henry Ward Beecher
Life, Anger, Men
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

Henry Ward Beecher
Desire, Doe, Recognition

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.

Henry Ward Beecher
Love, Valentines Day, Dream
Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.41

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

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