Category: social reformer
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
Frederick Douglass
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Henry Ward Beecher