Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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 advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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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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