It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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