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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

"I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her."

"If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me."

"My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University."

"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."
Explore more quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."

"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."

"Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying."

"None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn."

"The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too."

"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."
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