Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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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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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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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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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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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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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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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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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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