The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWalking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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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.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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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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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.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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