We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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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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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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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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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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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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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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