Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
HENRY WARD BEECHEROur government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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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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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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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.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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