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.
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 ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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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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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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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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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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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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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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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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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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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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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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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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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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