We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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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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