Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDo not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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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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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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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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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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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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