A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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