Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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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Some people are proud of their humility.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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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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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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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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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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