Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
HENRY WARD BEECHERInterest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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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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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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