To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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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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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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 coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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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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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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