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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWell married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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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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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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