Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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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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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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