We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe meanest thing in the world is the devil.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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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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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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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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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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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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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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