Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYou have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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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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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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