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Own Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- 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…
- He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
- As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake…
- If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker…
- The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and…
- Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults…
- The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as…
- No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own…
- Let every man come to God in his own way.
- Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
- Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that…
- No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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