There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWhen a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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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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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.
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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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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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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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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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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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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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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.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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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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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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