Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDon’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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It 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.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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