Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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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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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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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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