It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo man is more cheated than the selfish man.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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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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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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