Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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It 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.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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