“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
More from Henry Ward Beecher
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“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
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“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.”