Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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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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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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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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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