Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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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 oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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