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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWalking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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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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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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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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