That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
HENRY WARD BEECHERBe a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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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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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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