Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is 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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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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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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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