QUOTES by Henry Ward Beecher
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"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."
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"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."
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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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"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it."
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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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"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
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"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past."
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"The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success."
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"You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave."
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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
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"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality."
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"We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."
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"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."
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"The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all"
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"Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty--how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
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"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."
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"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."
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"No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form"
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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. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant."
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"That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all."
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"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."
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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."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
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"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others"
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"He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause."
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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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"It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible."
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