Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe things that hurt us teach us.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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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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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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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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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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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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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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