Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a burning desert, treeless, springless, drear, to green fields and blooming orchards in June, is slight in comparison with that from the desert of this world's affection to the garden of God, where there is perpetual, tropical luxuriance of blessed love.

Henry Ward Beecher's Popular Quotes

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Discover what you are.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

The things that hurt us teach us.

- Henry Ward Beecher