Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERChristianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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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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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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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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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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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