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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThat is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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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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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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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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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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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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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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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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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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