The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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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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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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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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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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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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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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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