Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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