No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWalking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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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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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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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