No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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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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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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