It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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 he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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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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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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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 – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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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 liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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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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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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