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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.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Leadership #Wisdom #Distance
“A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Christian #War #School
“It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Motivational #Graduation #Perseverance
“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Love #Inspirational #Family
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspirational #Strength #Success
“Blessed are the happiness makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Happiness #Cheer #Blessed
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspirational #Motivational #Attitude
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Happiness #Happy #Art
“Men's best successes come after their disappointments.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Disappointment
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Motivational #Faith #Future
“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Love #Life #Friendship
“Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspirational #Fashion #War
“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Strength #Being Strong #Loneliness
“What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Music #Flower #Rose
“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Motivational #Success #Giving Up
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Love #Daughter #Children
“Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Victory #Causes #Defeat
“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Love #Positive #Summer
“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Life #Success #Men
“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Happiness #Happy #Appreciation
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Inspirational #Life #Thankful
“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.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Happiness #New Year #Past
“Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Selfish #Men #Law
“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Mother #War #Kissing
“The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Wisdom #Philosophy #War
“No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#War #Men #Insanity
“We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Christian #Strong #Character
“To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Art #War #Get Well Soon
“The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Dog #Children
“If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Work #Benefits #Earning

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