The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWhatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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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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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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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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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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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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The dog is the god of frolic.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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True obedience is true freedom.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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