Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYou 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.
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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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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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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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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