Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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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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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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