That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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