Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

American clergyman
24 June 1813 — 8 March 1887

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Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

The mother`s heart is the child`s school-room.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won`t.

I don`t like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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