There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
HENRY WARD BEECHERPeople may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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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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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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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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