Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHome should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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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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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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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 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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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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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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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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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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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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