Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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