Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREveryone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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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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