Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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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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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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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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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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