Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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