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Firsts Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
- No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
- Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle…
- Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
- Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.
- Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of…
- The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
- An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and…
- The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive…
- A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and…
- Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which…
- 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…
- All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is…
- The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
- Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for…
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