In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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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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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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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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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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