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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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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.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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