The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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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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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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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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