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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

Henry Ward Beecher

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 BEECHER

Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Church Education Exhibition Gallery Imperfection Oneself
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Corruption Government Ourselves Revolution Stand Vote
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Away Beginning Grief Open Pass Stream Trickle
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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Dangerous Ignorance People
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Character Form Man People Reality Shadow Substance
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Day Morning Time
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Book Growth Honor Library
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Children Heart Mom Room School
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Oneself Success
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Discipline Government Liberty Man
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Doubt Goodness Himself Industry Work
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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Himself Life Man Obligation Representation
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Law Time Work
Love is the river of life in this world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Love River World

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

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