Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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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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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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