Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGreatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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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 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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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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