Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLeaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better 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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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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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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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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