We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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