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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERRepentance is another name for aspiration.
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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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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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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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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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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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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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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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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