We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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