Faith is spiritualized imagination.
HENRY WARD BEECHEROf all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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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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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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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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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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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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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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