Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe things that hurt us teach us.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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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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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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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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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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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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