Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTrue elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There 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.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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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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Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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