Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe things that hurt us teach us.
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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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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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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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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