Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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