There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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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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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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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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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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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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