To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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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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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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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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