You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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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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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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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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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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