No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
HENRY WARD BEECHERMen’s best successes come after their disappointments.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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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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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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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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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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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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