Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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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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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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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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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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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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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