Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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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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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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