Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

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