True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDon’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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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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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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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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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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