This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
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.
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.
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.
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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