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All Quotes by author - Henry Ward Beecher
" A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. "
Good Company
Good
Conversation
" A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better. "
Man
Purpose
School
" A church debt is the devil's salary. "
Devil
Salary
Debt
" A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. "
Necessities
Library
Life
" All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. "
Upward
Those
Mankind
" All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. "
Spot
Men
Broken
" A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. "
State
True
Riches
" A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. "
Know
Anger
Angry
" A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. "
Sense Of Humor
Road
Humor
" A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. "
Grateful
Thankful
Proud
" Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. "
Him
Who
Beware
" Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. "
Books
Nothing
Made
" Books are not men and yet they stay alive. "
Stay
Books
Alive
" Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. "
Hold
Take
Heaven
" Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next. "
Know
You
Never
" Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. "
Appearance
Clothes
Manners
" Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. "
Will
Than
Sins
" Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. "
Pictures
Art
Soul
" Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. "
Every
Inspirational
Stone
" Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. "
Cemetery
Faults
Man
" Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. "
Tomorrow
Anxiety
Faith
" Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. "
Foundation
Man
Remember
" Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. "
Ages
Hour
Principles
" Faith is spiritualized imagination. "
Faith
Imagination
" Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. "
God
Flowers
Things
" Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. "
Cards
Dice
Money
" God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses. "
God
Nurses
Men
" God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. "
Accept
God
You
" 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. "
Boat
Man
More
" God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. "
God
Forgiveness
Kisses
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