The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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