The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYou never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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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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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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