The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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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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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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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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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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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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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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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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