Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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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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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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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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The dog is the god of frolic.
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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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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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