The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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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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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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