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

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Work, Discipline, Lenient

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

Henry Ward Beecher
Truth, Work, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.529

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

Henry Ward Beecher
Change, Work, People
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.314

Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

Henry Ward Beecher
Work, Blessed, Men
Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.351

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

Henry Ward Beecher
Work, Earning It, Effectiveness
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.28

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

Henry Ward Beecher
Work, Men, Rich
Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.16

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, War, Work

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