Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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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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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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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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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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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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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 cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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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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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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