Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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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.
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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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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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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 worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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