Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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Sorrow makes men sincere.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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