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Up Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
- I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note…
- In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- 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…
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes…
- He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
- There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut…
- Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle…
- When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and…
- Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
- It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when…
- If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker…
- Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
- Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
- Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form.…
- A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young…
- A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat…
- The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its…
- A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging…
- Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch;…
- Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it…
- It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.
- A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging…
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