Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHome should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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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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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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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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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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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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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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