Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWhat I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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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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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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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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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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