It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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