Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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