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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.
Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere.
We've got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels.
Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks.Source: Born To Run (1975) Thunder Road -
See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven.
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Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.
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Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.
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Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
Source: Mother Courage and Her Children Mother Courage -
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
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Taoist philosophy... is essentially monistic.... Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.
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Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,
And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.
Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,
While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.Source: The Song of Long Sorrow
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