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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERRepentance is another name for aspiration.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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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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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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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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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 mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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