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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Place Road Ruin Yourself
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappoint Greatness Ourselves Success
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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God Night Plant Sleep
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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Experience Forever Head Heart Learning Old Practice
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Dangerous Errors Fake Leadership Mistake Path Quite True
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Book Human Nature Store
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Angry Dignity Evil Goodness Man
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Cheer Eat Enjoyment Friendship God
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Children Expectation Live Mom Myself Obedience
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Government World Worst
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Easy Grave Hard Place World

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