It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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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.
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I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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