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.
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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
Many would like religion as a sort of lightning rod to their houses, to ward off, by and by, the bolts of divine wrath.
Henry Ward Beecher
If you want your neighbor to know what the Christ spirit will do for him, let him see what it has done for you.
Henry Ward Beecher
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
Henry Ward Beecher
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
Henry Ward Beecher
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
Henry Ward Beecher
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