It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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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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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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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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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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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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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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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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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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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