The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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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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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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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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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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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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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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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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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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