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

Henry Ward Beecher · Success

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Henry Ward Beecher

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Forgiveness

Henry Ward Beecher

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.

Friendship

Henry Ward Beecher

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Money

Henry Ward Beecher

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

God