Category: social reformer
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A church debt is the devil’s salary.
Henry Ward Beecher
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
Frederick Douglass
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher