To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
HENRY WARD BEECHER“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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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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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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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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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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