#pa

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

#artist #brush #dips #every #his

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#dogs #failed #find #inspire #kind

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#condemnation #cure #more #sins #than

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#debt #economy #family #parents #family

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#companions #employ #everybody #intelligent #schoolmasters

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

#away #best #call #growing #institutions

I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#i #mind #pay #paying #pretty

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#human #human life #life #mirth #offered

Suffering is part of the divine idea. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#idea #part #suffering

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever. ↗