The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe dog is the god of frolic.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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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 no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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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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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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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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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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.
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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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