Henry Ward Beecher
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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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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.
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.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
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The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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