No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHe that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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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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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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 usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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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 dog is the god of frolic.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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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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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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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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