The dog is the god of frolic.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREducation is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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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.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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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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