It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREducation is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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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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Some people are proud of their humility.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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