It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
HENRY WARD BEECHERChildren are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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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.
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