The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a 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.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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.
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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