There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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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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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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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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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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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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