Pushing any truth out very far, you are met with a counter-truth.
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There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.Henry Ward Beecher
Men are like trees each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
Henry Ward Beecher
Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
Henry Ward Beecher
Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness.... But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
Henry Ward Beecher
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
Henry Ward Beecher
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
Henry Ward Beecher
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