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When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Children Friendship Love Parents
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Character Nature Saint Sin
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Bible Bottom God Reach Sea Yourself
Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Change Culture Education Goodness Size Sort
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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Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Happiness Home Memories Old Remember
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Angry Dignity Man Storm Stream Summer
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Man Success
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Learning Life Ourselves Reading Remember Struggle
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Forget Forgiveness Myself Way
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Heaven Man See Tear

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

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