The things that hurt us teach us.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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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 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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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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