Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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