The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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