Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYou are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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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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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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