No 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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERMen’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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No 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.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTroubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo 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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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
HENRY WARD BEECHERBe a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
HENRY WARD BEECHERRepentance is another name for aspiration.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYou are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYoung love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHEROnes best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHERInvolved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGreatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHome should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIntelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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