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From Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
- Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
- The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
- The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
- Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
- You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
- When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and…
- It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going…
- Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its…
- What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven…
- The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the…
- The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
- Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and…
- There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of…
- When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity;…
- Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults…
- There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the…
- If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what…
- The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread…
- The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive…
- As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give…
- A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
- The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and…
- Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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