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 BEECHEREducation is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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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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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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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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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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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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