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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe dog is the god of frolic.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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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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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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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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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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