Children Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

34 Children quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher’s observations on kids draw from his moral convictions, offering guidance that feels both earnest and historically grounded.

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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

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“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.”

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“A mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.”

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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

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

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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

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There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants…

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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and…

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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

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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…

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No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But…

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A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a…

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If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he…

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are…

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Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their…

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Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this…

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A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her…

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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why…

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Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women…

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If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that…

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Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I…

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Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.…

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We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer…

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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and…

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God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system,…

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It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when…

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The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it…

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Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects…

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May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we…

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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

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Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and…

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Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but…

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A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is…

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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

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Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

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In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

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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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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

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THERE are joys which long to be ours.

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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten…

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Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

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