The dog is the god of frolic.
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More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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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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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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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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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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