Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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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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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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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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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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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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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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