The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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