To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLaws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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True obedience is true freedom.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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