Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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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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 sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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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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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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