Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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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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That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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