The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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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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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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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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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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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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