Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDownright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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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.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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