The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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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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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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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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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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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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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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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