God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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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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True obedience is true freedom.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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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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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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