Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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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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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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