The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDon’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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