Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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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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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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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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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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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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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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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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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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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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