Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNext to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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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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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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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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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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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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