Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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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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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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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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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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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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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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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