Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
HENRY WARD BEECHEROnes best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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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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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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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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True obedience is true freedom.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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