Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWhatever 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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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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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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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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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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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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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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