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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

#cold #i #like #never #order

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#children #going #inconsistency #know #never

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#cannot #christian #man #place #where

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#condemnation #cure #more #sins #than

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#live #man #milk #pray #well

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

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#efforts #governments #law #liberty #man

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

#convert #ideas #outward #secret #success

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#itself #know #secret

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#asks #choice #god #how #life