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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)

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The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)

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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)

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