Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.
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The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.
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There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week.
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Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.
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All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.
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God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
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Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
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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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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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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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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
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The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.