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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.

Henry Ward Beecher

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Difference Marriage Poor Wings
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Instant Regret Requirement Time
The things that hurt us teach us.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Hurt Ourselves Teaching Thing
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fear Push Truth Yourself
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Government Himself Mindset Principle Reading Symbol Thinking
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Greatness Leaves Love Tribe Universal
The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bible Bottom God Reach Sea Yourself
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Choice Government Man
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Children Heart Mom Room School
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Artist Nature Paint Photograph Picture Soul
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Children Family Love Parents
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Heaven Man See Tear
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Best Ignorance Lesson Master Mistake
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.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Fall Sight Slip Yourself

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.

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