Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
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"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
Henry Ward Beecher
"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown."
Henry Ward Beecher
"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."
Henry Ward Beecher
"What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away."
Henry Ward Beecher
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
Henry Ward Beecher
"In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast."
Henry Ward Beecher
"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."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one."
Henry Ward Beecher
"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness."
Henry Ward Beecher
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
Henry Ward Beecher
"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."
Henry Ward Beecher
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