Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERJoy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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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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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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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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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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