The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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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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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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