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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

By Henry Ward Beecher
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

By Henry Ward Beecher
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices

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Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

By Henry Ward Beecher
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry

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Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

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When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

By Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. Religion

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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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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

By Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.

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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. Nature

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Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

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A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

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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.

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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. Humor

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Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. Government

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

By Henry Ward Beecher
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. Forgiveness

By Henry Ward Beecher