I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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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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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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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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