Author Topic: ~ Henry Ward Beecher Quotes ~ (Read 11855 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #30 on:** October 17, 2014, 12:16:15 PM »

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

MysteRy · « **Reply #31 on:** October 17, 2014, 12:19:02 PM »

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul.

MysteRy · « **Reply #32 on:** October 17, 2014, 12:20:02 PM »

It is not the going out of port but the coming in that determines the success of a voyage.

MysteRy · « **Reply #33 on:** October 17, 2014, 12:21:09 PM »

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.

MysteRy · « **Reply #34 on:** October 17, 2014, 12:22:24 PM »

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

MysteRy · « **Reply #35 on:** October 17, 2014, 12:23:26 PM »

None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.

MysteRy · « **Reply #36 on:** October 17, 2014, 12:24:07 PM »

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance.

MysteRy · « **Reply #37 on:** October 17, 2014, 12:24:54 PM »

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

MysteRy · « **Reply #38 on:** October 17, 2014, 12:25:47 PM »

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every pebble in the road.

MysteRy · « **Reply #39 on:** October 17, 2014, 12:26:22 PM »

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too.

MysteRy · « **Reply #40 on:** October 18, 2014, 11:44:17 AM »

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is not according to what he has.

MysteRy · « **Reply #41 on:** October 18, 2014, 11:45:00 AM »

In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

MysteRy · « **Reply #42 on:** October 18, 2014, 11:45:44 AM »

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

MysteRy · « **Reply #43 on:** October 18, 2014, 11:46:46 AM »

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

MysteRy · « **Reply #44 on:** October 18, 2014, 11:48:01 AM »

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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