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A helping word to one in trouble is like a switch in a railroad track . . . an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
By Henry Ward Beecher
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
By Henry Ward Beecher
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
By Henry Ward Beecher
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
By Henry Ward Beecher
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
By Henry Ward Beecher
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
By Henry Ward Beecher
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
By Henry Ward Beecher
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
By Henry Ward Beecher
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
By Henry Ward Beecher
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.
By Henry Ward Beecher
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
By Henry Ward Beecher
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
By Henry Ward Beecher