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«A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.»
«Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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chart, charted, charting, compass, guide, lamp, obligation, overboard, sink, The Bottom, tread, unchanged, voyage
«Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Humility,
Pride
| Keywords:
grateful, slays, soil, thanks, thanksgiving
«A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Ambition
| Keywords:
aspiration, aspires, compares, estimates, estimating, lower, produces, vulgar
«Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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be born, born again, buckle, buckled, first born, fresh start, gird, girding, girds, girt, January, let down, once more, page, take up, The Front, The Front Page
«Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself»
«He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.»
«The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.»
«The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Heroism,
World
| Keywords:
battlefields, chiefly, closet, displayed, heroism, household, the closet
«The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Respect
| Keywords:
conceited, overweening, relieves, respecting
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