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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Henry Ward Beecher

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Ground Man Reach Sky Touch
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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Heaven Man Perfection Place System Talk
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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Bone Defeat Man Muscle Reason
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

God Human Rich Soul Talk
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Heaven Man See Tear
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Children Friendship Love Parents
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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Children Heart Mom Room School
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Library Life Necessary Oneself
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bury Fair Fault Friendship Grave Himself Man Mistake
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Flower Happiness Shine Sun Tree Wide World
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Burn Cancel Forgiveness Myself Way
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Cheating Man Selfish

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

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