The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDo not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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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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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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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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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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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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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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