See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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