Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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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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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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