We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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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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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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