True obedience is true freedom.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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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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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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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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