I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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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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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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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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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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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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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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