Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use to you beyond this world. Nobody will have heard a word of your honors in the other life. Your glory, your shame, your ambitions, and all the treasures for which you push hard and sacrifice much will be like wreaths of smoke. For these things, which you mostly seek, and for which you spend your life only tarry with you while you are on this side of the flood.
The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't. - Henry Ward Beecher
The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Discover what you are. - Henry Ward Beecher
Discover what you are.
Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress. - Henry Ward Beecher
Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. - Henry Ward Beecher
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. - Henry Ward Beecher
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. - Henry Ward Beecher
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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 difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
The things that hurt us teach us. - Henry Ward Beecher
The things that hurt us teach us.
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