Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTrue elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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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.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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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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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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