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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

Henry Ward Beecher

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Difference Oneself Perseverance Strong Willing
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cage Inspirational Potential Worth Yourself
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Barrel Man Pieces
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Deserve Gratitude Humble Mindset Pride Thankful Thinking
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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Bad Complain Early Hard Work Honesty Luck Rise
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Compact Man Money Sale Value
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Humor Person Road Spring
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Form God Ideal Man Representation Simplicity
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?
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Afraid Death Heroic Inspirational Loud Motivational Noble Patriotism Society Talk
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 BEECHER

Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
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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Advertisement Column Community Knowledge Respect State
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blessing Cheer Gloom Shine
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Discipline Flame Hot Love Old Young

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