Men are like trees each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.Henry Ward Beecher
That for so many work is not a conscious choice but something that happens ... work is not the curse, drudgery is.
Henry Ward Beecher
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this childs want by grown people ... is a fertile source of suffering.
Henry Ward Beecher
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, - all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it.
Henry Ward Beecher
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
Henry Ward Beecher
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