Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe most dangerous people are the ignorant.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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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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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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