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It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

By Henry Ward Beecher
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

By Henry Ward Beecher
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

By Henry Ward Beecher
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

By Henry Ward Beecher
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

By Henry Ward Beecher
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love

By Henry Ward Beecher
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

By Henry Ward Beecher
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.

By Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

By Henry Ward Beecher
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

By Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness is not the end of life, character is

By Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

By Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

By Henry Ward Beecher
God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

By Henry Ward Beecher
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

By Henry Ward Beecher
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

By Henry Ward Beecher
Fear is a kind of bell ... it is the soul's signal for rallying.

By Henry Ward Beecher
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

By Henry Ward Beecher
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

By Henry Ward Beecher
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

By Henry Ward Beecher
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles

By Henry Ward Beecher
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

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

By Henry Ward Beecher
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

By Henry Ward Beecher
Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.

By Henry Ward Beecher
Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favour of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

By Henry Ward Beecher
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

By Henry Ward Beecher
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

By Henry Ward Beecher
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road.

By Henry Ward Beecher
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

By Henry Ward Beecher