No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHERRepentance is another name for aspiration.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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