True obedience is true freedom.
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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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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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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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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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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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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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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 do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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