Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHERAll men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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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.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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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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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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