We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe beginning is the promise of the end.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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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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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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