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In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
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A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
Henry Ward Beecher -
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Let every man come to God in his own way.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The beginning is the promise of the end.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
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What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.
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There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.
Henry Ward Beecher -
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
Henry Ward Beecher -
As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.
Henry Ward Beecher -
To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."
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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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There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?
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There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
Henry Ward Beecher