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 BEECHERGod has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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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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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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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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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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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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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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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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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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