Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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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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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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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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