Success is full of promises till men get it and then it is as last year's nest, from which the bird has flown.
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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.Henry Ward Beecher
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Henry Ward Beecher
And what the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way to the coffin.
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