Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDownright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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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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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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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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