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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
Henry Ward Beecher
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Henry Ward Beecher
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
Henry Ward Beecher
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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.
Henry Ward Beecher
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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.
Henry Ward Beecher
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
Henry Ward Beecher
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Henry Ward Beecher
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.
Henry Ward Beecher
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
Henry Ward Beecher
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