To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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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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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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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 art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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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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