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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#anarchy #next #thing #world #worst

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#better #christ #christian #himself #honest

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#child #heart #mother #schoolroom

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. ↗

— 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

#children #going #inconsistency #know #never

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#friction #kills #machinery #people #revolution

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#convert #ideas #outward #secret #success

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#debt #economy #family #parents #family

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther." ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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