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Things Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
- We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
- The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
- To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
- The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
- The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
- Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle…
- In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
- Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
- That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
- The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character…
- As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part…
- 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…
- To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around…
- If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what…
- To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around…
- Good-humor makes all things tolerable
- It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.
- The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an…
- If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary,…
- Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest…
- A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
- Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which…
- I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the…
- There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle