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.
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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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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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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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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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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