No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
More Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher:
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.Henry Ward Beecher
Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.
Henry Ward Beecher
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm maintain simplicity of taste and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.
Henry Ward Beecher
A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it
Henry Ward Beecher
There never was a person that did anything worth doing who did not really receive more than he gave
Henry Ward Beecher
Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days how to bear buffeting and scorn how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for
Henry Ward Beecher
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