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Higher Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
- We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
- As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part…
- All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better…
- If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the…
- The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an…
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