Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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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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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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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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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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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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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