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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bad Complain Early Hard Work Honesty Luck Rise
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Conservatism Funeral Life Man Nation Wound Young
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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Better Honesty Man Myself Purpose School Sin
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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Children Expectation Live Mom Myself Obedience
There 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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Born Development Discipline Live Man Nature
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Elegant Simplicity True
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
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Hard Master Yourself
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Barrel Man Pieces
Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Beautiful Creation God Trade
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Fear Push Truth Yourself
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Law Master Obedience Rule Servant
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Beautiful Book Furniture Home
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Place Road Ruin Yourself
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul
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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Damage Fear Ghost Himself Man Personality Sort

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