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Man Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
- Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for…
- The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
- Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
- 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 that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
- To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
- All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right…
- A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
- If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
- A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
- Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to…
- Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
- No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
- God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
- It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
- God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without…
- To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
- Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
- The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have…
- Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are…
- Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to…
- Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which…
- His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
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