God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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