Quotes Henry Ward Beecher
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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.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
A babe is a mother's anchor.
As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.
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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.
