Nov 30, 2001
The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Jan 15, 2002
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
Henry Ward Beecher
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April 28, 2002
God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
Henry Ward Beecher
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March 23, 2003
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher
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May 11, 2003
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher
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March 4, 2004
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
Henry Ward Beecher
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June 22, 2004
Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is the more likely to lead astray.
Henry Ward Beecher
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July 5, 2004
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must accept it. The only choice is how.
Henry Ward Beecher
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July 24, 2004
Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two and burned up, so that it can never be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
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November 7, 2004
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and guide would be gone; the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!
Henry Ward Beecher
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February 24, 2005
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher
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July 2, 2005
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
Henry Ward Beecher
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August 1, 2005
The mother's heart is the child's classroom.
Henry Ward Beecher
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January 22, 2006
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety - all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it.
Henry Ward Beecher
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June 25, 2006
Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher
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October 4, 2006
I call the New Testament the Book of Joy. There is nowhere in the world another book that is pervaded with such a spirit of exhilaration.
Henry Ward Beecher
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December 16, 2007
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher
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