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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Henry Ward Beecher

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Children Family Love Parents
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bad Darkness Failure Goodness Light Noble Oneself Quality
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Greatness Lying Right Strength Strong
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Blessing Drive Temptation Time Work
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Age Himself Man Planning Strength Thinking Time
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Book Growth Honor Library
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Greatness Happiness Heart Pleasure Yourself
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Law Time Work
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

God Night Plant Sleep
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Doubt Goodness Himself Industry Work
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Death Home Morning Time Vacation
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Day Flower Garden Happiness Home Man Smile Summer Week World
The things that hurt us teach us.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Anxiety Choice Faith Future Handle Hold
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Discipline Government Liberty Man

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