The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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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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