The things that hurt us teach us.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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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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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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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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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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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