No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDo not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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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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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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