Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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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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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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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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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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