Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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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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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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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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 tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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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 become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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