The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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