To the great tree-loving ...

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 them - the whole leaf and root tribe. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them.
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 them - the whole leaf and root tribe. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them.
 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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 Henry Ward Beecher
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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 Henry Ward Beecher
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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 Henry Ward Beecher
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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 Henry Ward Beecher
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
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 Henry Ward Beecher