Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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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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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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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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 array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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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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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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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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