We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
HENRY WARD BEECHERBlessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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