I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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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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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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