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See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also.
By Henry Ward Beecher
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. Faith
By Henry Ward Beecher
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
By Henry Ward Beecher
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
By Henry Ward Beecher
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
By Henry Ward Beecher
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;
By Henry Ward Beecher
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.
By Henry Ward Beecher
A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.
By Henry Ward Beecher
A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
By Henry Ward Beecher
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. Business
By Henry Ward Beecher
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
By Henry Ward Beecher
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Art
By Henry Ward Beecher
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
By Henry Ward Beecher
'For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say 'I have loved as truly and I have lived as decently as my dog.' And yet we call them 'only brutes'!'
By Henry Ward Beecher
If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
By Henry Ward Beecher
The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
By Henry Ward Beecher
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.
By Henry Ward Beecher
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
By Henry Ward Beecher
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
By Henry Ward Beecher
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
By Henry Ward Beecher
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
By Henry Ward Beecher
When we talk about ourselves we almost invariably use Latin words, and when we talk about our neighbors we use Saxon words
By Henry Ward Beecher