Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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