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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Alone Earth God Majority Man Population Right Side
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cheating Day Eat Enjoyment Friendship Future Happiness Yourself
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Born Man Page Start
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Divine Food Happiness Medicine Sorrow
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Heaven Man See Tear
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Library Man Paint Portrait
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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Excellence Judgment People Point Start Travel
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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Afraid Defeat Goodness Reason Victory
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Generosity Lost Myself
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Greatness Happiness Heart Pleasure Yourself

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