We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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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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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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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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