We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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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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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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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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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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