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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher
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As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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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.
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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?
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To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
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God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, A man is dead, but angels throng about him saying, A man is born.
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October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.
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Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
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Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.
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Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
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O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present the last is only the method of the first.
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He will see most without who has the best eyes within and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.
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A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
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