Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSee to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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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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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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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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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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