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 BEECHERMen’s best successes come after their disappointments.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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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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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 will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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