The dog is the god of frolic.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSome people are proud of their humility.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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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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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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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 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.
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