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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Henry Ward Beecher

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Humble Man Proud Walk Yourself
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Cruelty Excitement Love Man War
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Blossom Fair Gratitude Soul
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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Easy Grave Hard Place World
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Children Family Love Parents
It 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.
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Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Compassionate Cure Kindness Sin
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
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.
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Advertisement Column Community Knowledge Respect State
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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God Night Plant Sleep
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fish Hook Man Shop Small
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Give Up Ourselves Rich World
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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Fatal Himself Interest Man Roll
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Discover Finding Temptation Yourself

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