No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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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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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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