Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
HENRY WARD BEECHERMen’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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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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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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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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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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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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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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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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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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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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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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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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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