A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
HENRY WARD BEECHERFind out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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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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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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