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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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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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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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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 is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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