You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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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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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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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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