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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHappiness is not the end of life: character is.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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True obedience is true freedom.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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