The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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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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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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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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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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