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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

Henry Ward Beecher

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
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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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Himself Poor Rich
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Ability Ideas Secret Success
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Character End Happiness Life
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
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Fear God Pilot Ship
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Hold Mouth Quarrel Wisdom World
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excuse Hold Responsibility Standard Yourself
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Book Growth Honor Library
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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Excuse Himself Man Reality
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Instant Regret Requirement Time
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

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