Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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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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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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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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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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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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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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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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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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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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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Whatever 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.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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