The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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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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The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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