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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.
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If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
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The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
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The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.
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Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.
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Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.
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