Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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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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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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