There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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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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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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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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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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