Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLife would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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