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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Henry Ward Beecher

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Art Common Happiness Power
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Egg Herself Man Rich
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Blessing Drive Temptation Time Work
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
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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Destroy Friction Kill Machine Man Revolution Work Worry
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Death Hard Intolerance
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
True obedience is true freedom.
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Freedom Obedience One Liner True
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
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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Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Blunt Government Rule
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Ability Hands Head Intelligence Labor
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Devil Mean World
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Art Himself Man Medicine Sick
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Born Man Page Start

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