Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHome should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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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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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.
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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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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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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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