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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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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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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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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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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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