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 BEECHERTo array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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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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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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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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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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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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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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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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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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