Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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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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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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